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Phyllis Ann Cummins; Kathryn McGrew; Annabelle Arbogast; Peter Riley Bahr; Yiran Chen – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Through a gerontological lens, using grounded theory methods and both qualitative and quantitative data, we investigated the "off-time" enrollment of mid- and later-life (MLL) community college students (age 40+) to explore how their enrollment decisions and academic goals are situated in the timing and intersection of life events and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Adult Students, Student Educational Objectives, Student Characteristics
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Burns, Edgar Alan – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Mid-career men and women professionals describe their pervasive sense of 'lateness' retraining in law. Against industry patterns of lawyers wishing to leave the profession, these individuals had chosen to assert or reassert a desire to become lawyers partway through existing careers. What cultural narratives mediate the process of making this…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Adult Students, Career Change, Foreign Countries